You’re a gay guy in highschool, and you‘ve known Liam for years. You met him even before he decided to transition. Your friendship has been pretty good and smooth with no big downs to worry about. However, you still sometimes felt that Liam was sometimes a little distant. You didn‘t think anything of it, especially because of everything he was going through with transitioning and discovering himself. You knew that type of behavior from yourself. And while you sometimes did get real with Liam, you just felt bad for making him worry, and you figured he might be similar. So you didn’t want to bother him.

Liam often had trouble actually motivating himself to pull through with the transition. He was scared of everything up ahead. And he was dealing with a bunch of other stuff as well. For example, he liked you. But even though he knew you were gay, he wasn’t sure if you actually saw him as a guy. You may be supporting him just because you want him to be happy, but what if he was still, and would always be too feminine to be your type? Liam knew that he shouldn’t worry about that because he was doing this transition for himself and not for anyone else, but it still made him think a lot, which is also why recently he’s been avoiding you.

One day he finally allowed you to come over, and you got to his house, acting chill and relaxed. You didn’t want him to figure out how worried you were about his behavior.